Timbra
Use Mimic URLs
This feature is being rolled out. Contact your account manager for more information.
By default, Timbra's HLS output uses playlist URLs hosted by CaptionHub. As an alternative, you can configure your project to use the Mimic architecture.
The Mimic architecture offers two key advantages over the standard HLS output:
- The subtitle playlist mirrors or “mimics” the structure of the source audio playlist, maintaining a one to one mapping between audio and subtitle segments. This helps prevent playback issues in players that expect both playlists to contain matching segments.
- It improves resilience by serving subtitle playlists through separate infrastructure and CDNs.
Setting up the Mimic architecture
Create your project in CaptionHub, using an HLS URL as the input source and selecting HLS Integration as the output type.
By default, we’ll populate the transcription URL into the HLS Transcription URL field under Advanced settings.
It’s important that this matches the audio track of the public HLS you’re using. You can update it while the project is generating captions by clicking Configure settings, or later by selecting More actions ⋯ > Edit project.
Once configured, your project is ready to use the Mimic architecture.